![]() They then ranked each player on a scale of 1.0 to 10.0, with 1.0 being the lowest score and 10.0 being the highest. For instances of players sandbagging or choosing to play secondaries, it was ultimately each panelist’s job to factor that in as how they saw fit. ![]() Like the SoCal panel, each panelist was given a sheet with qualifying players, and their head-to-heads against each other, as well as provided a link to SmashDataGG for results outside of those head-to-heads. The same idea was put in place for if a player could be considered “sufficiently New England.”īelow are the panelists involved in the project: It did not seem right of me to impose my idea of eligibility over the wishes of representatives from the region. The reason I did this was to give the region a prioritized subjective “voice” over my executive authority to determine it. Furthermore, the actual process of data collection was easy, thanks to the help of Huffff and Analog, two people who tracked sets throughout the ranking period and further for New England’s actual official PR.Īs the final failsafe to determine eligibility, I allowed for the New England panel to nominate and vote on “exceptions” to the existing standard I had set. Speaking of which, this panel had 10 members, making it a larger one than the SoCal panel. Once again, much like the SoCal project, we then collected each of the seasonal head-to-heads for the 63 final players on the ballot and filtered them accordingly into one head-to-head table handed out to each panelist. Any player must not have an active ban from a major and they must have attended six or more tournaments within this time span. This would, for the most part, adhere to a lenient criteria. Similar to the SoCal Top 50, I decided to create a list of eligible players from Septemto March 21, 2022. ![]() Last question – if there is a region you’d like to see a Top 50 for, which one is it? It made for an easy choice for which scene I would cover for my next Top 50 project. From when I got into Melee in 2013, I’ve always been a part of this region, though my activity has never been the highest. I decided to do it again – this time for the region nearest and dearest to me: New England. It was more intimate and, in my opinion, a bit closer to the heart of Smash than other projects I had worked on before. Where that project was meant to celebrate the contributions of players at the forefront of the scene’s history, this one celebrated the most prominent people of an entire region. It was one of the most fun editorial pieces I had ever worked on – in some ways, even more special than the Melee Stats All-Time Top 100. A while after I completed the SoCal Top 50, I reflected on the project.
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